Mark Pryor wrote: > > --- On Thu, 3/26/09, Ben <abnormaliti at clivepeeters.com.au> wrote: > > >> From: Ben <abnormaliti at clivepeeters.com.au> >> Subject: [CentOS] 64bit Python 32bit c library ... >> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> >> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 10:48 PM >> >> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >> >> I have a closed-source 32bit >> database application running on a 64bit >> CentOS 5.2 system which is running very well however i am >> looking at >> developing some python applications that require access to >> the data and >> the vendor only provides a 32bit c library. >> >> So while attempting to utilize the library in python with >> ctypes it >> became obvious that the 64bit python cannot use the 32bit c >> library. >> >> So what are my choices? >> >> > > Yum and so many of the applets (system-config-*) are tied to Python that you can't mess with the base version or arch of Python. > > What about a 32 bit chroot using Mock? I've never done it, but that's what Mock is intended to do. > > Perl.i386 will run OK in x86_64 and there is a version of perl-Inline-CPP that will allow you to write most of what you want in CPP and wrap it with Perl. > > I am afraid we are stuck with Python. A considerable amount of the work has already been done but it has been developed on a 32bit system and it wasn't until early testing revealed our 64bit issue. One of the primary objectives is to develop a SOAP interface to the application and that has also been started using TurboGears. The vendor has offered to port the library to 64bit for a 5 figure amount. Ben